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Subject: [Leica] PESO: sharpness is a bourgeois concept
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 13:42:51 -0600
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Nice catch!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu>
To: "lug Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" 
<olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:11 PM
Subject: [Leica] PESO: sharpness is a bourgeois concept


>I have sometimes used the above phrase in jest, but there really is 
>something to it.
>
> I took this picture in Barcelona last week. The story behind the picture 
> is that our office was hosting the trademark offices from the US, Japan, 
> China and Korea for an annual meeting of the so-called TM5 group. The 
> first day of meetings, Tuesday, was followed by a walking tour of 
> Barcelona?s old city and then dinner. As we were walking out of our hotel, 
> it was slightly drizzly, so most people took umbrellas with them. Within 
> 10 minutes the drizzle turned into a very serious downpour and any 
> thoughts of looking at the old city were replaced by thought of shelter, 
> any kind of shelter. In the end we made our way to La Boquer?a, a covered 
> food market, from where we took taxis to the restaurant.
>
> Along the way, I photographed a small group of our visitors being led 
> across Pla?a de Catalunya by Lynn, one of our employees:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/20121030-L1008298.jpg.html
>
> Lynn absolutely loves this picture, and so do others to whom she has shown 
> it.  I am going to have it printed for her. Do I wish it were sharper? Of 
> course! But I do not believe it is particularly "damaged" by not being 
> sharp. It sort of adds to the ambience, I think--and so do lots of others, 
> apparently.
>
> The lesson? Maybe none, but I think it is something along the lines of 
> "just take the damn picture"!
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>
>
> YNWA
>
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